The origins of AIDS /
"This compelling new account traces the origins and development of the most dramatic and destructive disease epidemic of modern times. Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent evolution and transmission...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Out of Africa
- The source
- The timing
- The cut hunter
- Societies in transition
- The oldest trade
- Injections and the transmission of viruses
- The legacies of colonial medicine I: French Equatorial Africa and Cameroun
- The legacies of colonial medicine II: the Belgian Congo
- The other human immunodeficiency viruses
- From the Congo to the Caribbean
- The blood trade
- The globalisation
- Assembling the puzzle
- Epilogue: lessons learned.